Thurston, N (2013) Publishing as a praxis of conceptualist reading performances. Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 6 (3). 421 - 429. ISSN 1753-5190
Abstract
Since 2006 I have been a co-editor of the independent publishing imprint information as material. This article is a position statement about my understanding of what we try to do together through a mode of 'publishing as praxis'. The first half outlines the intersecting concerns shared by Craig Dworkin, Simon Morris and I, explaining how our collective identity functions as a self-publishing framework for writers who produce 'conceptualist reading performances'. Following this I explain how certain kinds of self-publishing can be differentiated from vanity publishing by analysing how the two differently relate to the subject-status of the authorial self that they make public. In the second half I speculatively map these ideas onto the emergent field of Conceptual Writing, re-positioning it as an extra-literary approach to writing that performs on the outside of literature's territory to alter the question of authoriality so central to how we understand literature's horizons. © 2013 Intellect Ltd Article.
Metadata
Item Type: | Article |
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Authors/Creators: |
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Keywords: | Conceptual writing; Extra-literary; Self-publishing; Praxis; Art collectives; Contemporary art |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 12 Nov 2015 09:39 |
Last Modified: | 12 Nov 2015 09:48 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jwcp.6.3.421_1 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Intellect |
Identification Number: | 10.1386/jwcp.6.3.421-1 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:86998 |